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Title is fantastic, had me laughing at my own ignorance to copilot's offerings before I even started the article. I do feel like if any of the major companies
by sidrag22 6mo ago
Title is fantastic, had me laughing at my own ignorance to copilot's offerings before I even started the article.
I do feel like if any of the major companies could do with a rebranding it would be copilot. They are tossing that name on all of their stuff, and it just doesn't carry the weight of any of the big names even though its chatgpt models under the hood.
Personally i associate it with annoying bloatware, and silently judge windows users based on if that icon is still on their tasbar.
- dfxm12 6mo agoIt does a good job of when a VIP employee demands "copilot", you have to buy a bunch of different licenses for them because no one knows exactly what they want (they just want copilot, no not that one).
- gwerbin 6mo agoSorry if this is a stupid question but shouldn't you try to clarify which product specifically they have in mind before you spend money on something that might not be the right thing?
- dfxm12 6mo agoYou can try, but you will often be unsuccessful because of the sheer number of skus, all with similar and sometimes overlapping capabilities & the poor documentation on MS' part. Additionally, VIP users may not like to clarify. They saw a demo of "something" and need it yesterday...
- mancerayder 6mo agoThe opposite of what Oracle used to do (arguably successfully). Break up useful components of middleware or database servers so you have to add a litany of expensive features, similar to trying to pick a trim on the BMW website.
- gwerbin 6mo agoThe nice thing about being a Github shop but not really a Microsoft shop is the range of Copilot" might refer to narrows quite a bit. "Github Copilot" is a relatively coherent collection of products, and never have to be bothered with any of the other stuff. That said I suspect this is in part an attempt at making the name so ubiquitous that people start using it the way they currently use ChatGPT. Like Kleenex or Bandaid or Google, where the name of the product is just the brand.